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Melbourne, Fla.-based Maverick Jets has moved manufacturing of its five-seat Leader twinjet kitplane to Tbilisi Aerospace Manufacturing in the republic of

Defunct VisionAire’s intellectual property for its six-seat, single-engine Vantage very light business jet and two-seat, single-engine Spirit sport jet is

Calling it one of the most complex design efforts ever undertaken in the field of avionics, Honeywell engineering executives were popping champagne corks l

The DOT last month began a top-to-bottom audit of the FAA’s next-generation air-to-ground communications (Nexcom) program that is closely scrutinizin

Honeywell is testing a new type of automated cockpit concept that can take control of airplanes to keep them from flying into the ground or buildings.

Just in time for the Oshkosh airshow last month, WSI announced FAA manufacturing approval for the company’s InFlight weather briefing system.

As anyone who has it or has tried it can attest, satellite radio is seriously cool.

Adam Aircraft of Englewood, Colo., will equip the in-development Adam A500 piston twin with Avidyne’s FlightMax Entegra integrated flight deck.

Chelton Flight Systems of Boise, Idaho, has received FAA approval for installation of its FlightLogic synthetic-vision EFIS in helicopters.

The FAA has released a “roadmap” for performance-based navigation that would enable pilots to use Rnav and RNP (required navigation performance) procedures

IEC In-Flight Systems plans to introduce a  digital cabin management system (CMS) for business aircraft.

It’s a David-and-Goliath story, but lately it has been getting tougher to tell just who’s the Goliath.On the one hand Garmin’s proposed buyout

India’s Air Deccan operated its inaugural revenue flight with one of six 48-seat ATR 42-320s on August 25, between its home city of Bangalore and Hubli, in

Brazil’s Embraer remains firmly on target for November certification of its much-heralded but delay-prone Embraer 170, according to company vice president

The second Embraer 175 prototype flew its maiden mission on August 7, marking the resumption of a comparatively short flight-test program scheduled to last

The merger of Russia’s two leading helicopter makers is inevitable, according to Sergey Mikheyev, constructor general of Kamov, one of the two companies in

North Sea operations giant CHC Helicopter has won contracts worth $44 million to provide helicopter service throughout the world.

In one of the highest death tolls from a civil helicopter crash in recent memory, 27 offshore oil workers as well as the crew of a Mil Mi-172 were killed A

In a move sure to amaze Western rotorcraft makers, Russia’s Kamov has announced it will sell a hoped-for total of 145 of its Ka-50-2 Black Shark helicopter

Just a few short years ago, the manufacturers of small, low-cost helicopters targeted Asia as the market of the future for their brand of inexpensive verti

As we round the corner past the U.S.

The history of the Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey military tiltrotor is that of the rankest of Hollywood cliffhangers.

Unfazed by (or perhaps because of) murmurs from within Bell Helicopter management to the effect that development of the BA609 might be accelerated, Agusta-

Although Congress is on its annual summer vacation, the battle over privatization of ATC continued at press time.

Nowhere is the boundary layer between piston airplanes and small business jets becoming less defined than in avionics.

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A fuel-cell-powered electric airplane is the goal of Worcester, Mass.-based Advanced Technology Products and its nonprofit arm, the Foundation for Advancin

In the 1950s, Dee Howard of San Antonio converted and rebuilt Lockheed B-34/PV-1 Venturas as executive transports, calling them the Howard Aero 250 and 350

Air BP and ConocoPhillips took to the pulpit at EAA AirVenture to announce new oil and lubrication products, primarily for piston aircraft.Air

I recently had the chance to fly one of the King Air C90s re-engined with two Walter M601E-11s